For a while I've had trouble with invalid email address "Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org " getting saved into to my .bbdb file. This happens on messages from Ville, which is has a utf-8 encoded =C3=A4=: From: Ville =?utf-8?q?Skytt=C3=A4?= <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt; After some amount grovelling through the bbdb code I figured the invalid email address is caused by mail-extract-address-components defined in mail-lib/mail-extr.el. (mail-extract-address-components "Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt;&quot;) ==> ("Ville Skytt" "Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org ") mail-extract-address-components is rather intimidating. I saw some syntax table code, so I modified the syntax entries for the C3 and A4 characters from the utf-8 encoding: (modify-syntax-entry ?\à "w" mail-extr-address-syntax-table) ;C3/&Atilde (modify-syntax-entry ?\¤ "w" mail-extr-address-syntax-table) ;A4/&curren After I did that I get (mail-extract-address-components "Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt;&quot;) ==> ("Ville Skytt" &quot;scop(a)xemacs.org&quot;) Which is almost correct, except for the final character in the last name. At least it doesn't produce an invalid email address. Any suggestions on what would be a more correct fix here? I'm using 21.4.18 mule on Ubuntu that I built from source. I'm running XEmacs with LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1. -jeff _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta